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Re: do orphaned form labels = accessibility failure?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Aug 14, 2012 5:18PM

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Paul J. Adam wrote:
> Are orphaned form labels (labels with no form controls) a WCAG 2.0 accessibility failure?

I don't think they would be a failure or an accessibility issue.

The WAVE tool flags them as an error (in the updated tool it's an
alert) because when you have a label without an associated form
control, there is typically a form control also that doesn't have a
label - usually because the for and/or id values have become
mismatched or removed.

Jared